Huffines sounds the alarm over Texas early voting

The Damage Report's John Iadarola and Sharon Reed examine encouraging signs for Democrats, while separating heavy turnout from actual election results.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 462,533 views a day, 7.8 times a normal first day on this channel (59,588).

Democrats Get STUNNING News As Early Voting Data Revealed

"We're not doing good right now in the early vote," Don Huffines tells a Lubbock rally. The Texas Republican's warning opens a Damage Report segment that gives John Iadarola plenty to examine, but not a settled verdict on the midterms.

Iadarola moves from the rally footage to reporting from Time and the University of Florida's Election Lab showing registered Democrats leading the early-voting totals. Texas gets particular attention through a post from Republican Bo French comparing turnout in Travis County with Midland and other West Texas counties.

There is an important distinction beneath the video's exuberant title, "Democrats Get STUNNING News As Early Voting Data Revealed": turnout is not the same thing as a vote count for either party. Iadarola himself notes that lots of people voting does not necessarily mean bad news for Republicans.

Reed offers a more bullish reading. She attributes Democratic enthusiasm to frustration and predicts record turnout in Georgia. Those are her assessment and forecast, not results already in hand.

The segment drew roughly 184,000 views in six hours, already more than triple the channel's usual full first day. A separate discussion of South Carolina's Senate polling was also making an unusually fast start.

Later, Iadarola broadens the picture with Sabato's Crystal Ball's shifts toward Democrats in House and Senate contests. He closes the electoral discussion by arguing that a narrow Democratic Senate majority would leave John Fetterman with more influence than he would like.

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The early-voting segment has already passed the audience a regular Damage Report upload usually reaches in its first full day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

59,588

this video

462,533

subscribers

1,380,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,679,814,141

views per day

873,257

typical day: 994,489

the video

views

183,545

likes

6,273

comments

919

days online

1

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